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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wise actors: F. M. Eaton '27, as the leading man, and therefore the Plot, is personable and easy: J. C. MacDonald '26, is an agreeable lepidopterist (a lepidopterist just makes the glasses he doesn't test your eyes: not allowed to by law, or some-thing); J. H. Wright '25, is apparently a butler, but when he lays hold of an ukulele and sings with Mr. Wilson, or when he does a neat step-dance with Mr. Wilson, J. H. Wright '27 is as admirable as Crichton and a lot nimbler C. S. Gross '27 would be a Grade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hollister Finds "Laugh It Off" Great Success--Says Dancing and Acting of Wilson Feature Pudding Show | 4/16/1925 | See Source »

...great change in the type of production came in 1844 when it was decided to abandon the traditional mock trial which had been held yearly from 1795, in favor of a comical sketch. According to the report of J. T. Wheel-wright, who has left an account of this first performance, it was indeed an impromptu affair. The date picked was Friday the thirteenth and 11 Hollis Hall was converted into the stage. A large plank, slightly longer than the room, was bowed so as to serve for the footlights, boots were made of blackened cardboard, wigs and dresses were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Hasty Pudding Shows Are at Opposite Pole From Those of Earliest Years--First Comic Sketch in 1844 | 4/16/1925 | See Source »

...Wright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTORS NAMED FOR P. B. H. ANNUAL DRIVE | 4/14/1925 | See Source »

Bearing a distinction enjoyed only by figures such as George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Edison, General Goethals, Orville Wright, Guglielmo Marconi, Ambrose Swazey (TIME, Feb. 25. 1924), Mr. Stevens arose to deprecate, to give thanks. He briefly ran over his life?a start in Maine, no technical training, the acquisition of knowledge through observation. He concluded: "There is not a man who ever worked for me whom I cannot now call my friend. That is my greatest triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fritz Medal | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

...band will include Thayer Cummings '26, A. G. Carrillo '26, G. B. Moynahan '26, P. K. Brown '26, J. G. Wright '25, N. S. Hesse '27, and W. L. Tibbetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANGE PERSONNEL OF PUDDING CHORUS | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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